Sunday, September 06, 2015

And Another Amnesty

Faced with pushing through City Council a massive property tax increase and other fees as part of a 2016 budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying to slightly soften that politically difficult package by offering an amnesty program for people who have unpaid tickets and back taxes they owe the city.

Under the program announced Friday, people or businesses with parking tickets and other vehicle violations and back taxes issued before 2012 would be eligible for amnesty. Emanuel's office said applicants will not have to pay any late fees or fines added on qualifying unpaid debts between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15.

The city offered similar amnesty programs in 2002, 2005 and 2008, which city spokeswoman Molly Poppe said each brought in $7 million to $9 million. So it isn't likely such a program will now raise enough to significantly reduce a property tax increase of between $450 million and $550 million that Emanuel is expected to call for under the budget.

But it makes Rahm look like a benevolent dictator instead of a raging asshole, so there's the payoff.

24 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Sure does make him look like a benevolent master. Except of course that he's sticking the tax payer with the real estate tax increase, and giving the dead-beats a break on their penalty. That works out great for half the city.

Rahm's problem stems from never suffering real, skin-off-his-own-ass consequences for the way he plays.

He seems to have been the kind of little disturbed fuck whowould piss on the back of another guy's shoes for using HISfavorite urinal in the boy's room.

>Little shit-ass running to hide behind the principal's skirtbecause he knows that she doesn't believe her "Little Rahmmie"would commit souch a breach of etiquette and even if he did, whythe "older boys" would want to whip the ever-loving shit out of him<

Rahm doing the thumb to nose "NYAH-NYAH!" from behind the principal's skirt.

And Rahm does that shit as an adult...

And you wonder why his school records and other such sources of insight into his deeply fucked-upcome-up are under seal/hidden from view.

The public was intentionally blocked from doing due diligence but he was such a miserable, obviously medicated rotter as anadult, you have a long unbroken skein of unhinged behavior youcan point to as his default setting.

Shit-Ass being a shitty ass...

No wonder he eschews proximity withreal, tough, old-school men who know What it's like to fight and sweat for something.

I heard on a Spanish language radio station that mobile street venders licences will be REDUCED, if I remember correctly, from $165 per year down to $100 EVERY 2 YEARS. RobertoM Maldonado was praising it. Distribuition of wealth.

The law of diminishing returns is an economic principle stating that as investment in a particular area increases, the rate of profit from that investment, after a certain point, cannot continue to increase if other variables remain at a constant. As investment continues past that point, the return diminishes progressively. Maybe it's time to look at lowering the taxes and fines to amounts that are more profitable. The current state of things encourages people to go to Indiana and other counties for goods and people wait on these amnesties to pay their tickets.

Management is pushing for a quota from PEA's for the City. Right now..just like the CPD, quota's are not allowed per the terms of the Contract...and under state law.

But they are attempting to motivate the Dogs in our department. They are pushing for a 6 per hour Minimum.

Now most of you OTJ Hard Chargers are probably saying right now...6 per hour? That isn't hard to do.

And you would be right.

But guess what starts to get written every day instead of "When Obvious and Excessive?"

12 inches from the curbImproper Display of City StickerAny type of Foreign Object on the License PlatePark/Stand on Parkway: 1 wheel only...instead of Blatant and Obvious and Excessive

Last week...the 1st through the 4th: I wrote just over 500 tickets. That was restricted to the basics....Street Cleaning, Rush Hour, Truck Tickets, Residential Parking Permit tickets, Time Restrictions, Expired Plates and Tow Zones. Nothing nit-picky.

Oh...I was in 1711 and 1712 for 90% of the week..

And if someone can get me the phone number of that exceptionally pretty Female Cop on a bike that was doing street cleaning in 1712 last week....I'll never ticket your car again.

Oh..Drew from Finance...that guy on the bike with the yellow/black jacket or the tactical vest.

I don't have a problem with an amnesty....BUT...it should be only for tickets issued before 2005. Ten years or Less. That should be the statute...

And the Boot threshold should be changed as well.

No plates? Boot300 or more over 60 days? Boot

Oh by the way....You boys and girls in Blue?

You got better things to do than be writing parking tickets. At least if you are really short on manpower in the "Safe Districts" and understaffed city wide on the whole.

I should never see a Cop in 019, 020, 024, 016, 017, 014 or 018 writing for Street Cleaning or Rush Hour or 9-64-100G.

And seeing Cops write Expired Meter Tickets in 018 buy Chestnut and Michigan is always a screaming recommendation of the "we don't have enough cops on the street" statement SCC.

I should point out...as an employee of the Department of Finance, I have access to certain records.

There are 10,670 individuals with the Job Title of Police Officer as of this day. 924 are Police Officer (Assigned As ....)

There are 13,976 employees of the Chicago Police Department as of this day.

6 Chiefs18 Deputy Chiefs36 Commanders32 Captains194 Lt's1138 Sgt's

Thats 9746 Blue Shirts Not in units like Marine or Mounted or Helicopter pilot or Canine or ET or Dic.

The Special Unit Cops don't count IMO. You don't drive a squad car with a 001 through 025 tag...you're not a Blue Shirt anymore. Less than a Grand...in special units. There are not enough Blue Shirts for y'all to be out writing parkers..

Honestly, the cities current collection models are costing more to enforce. Amnesty makes sense.

(Remember SERCO gets paid at least twice what it pays each employee hourly to write tickets) So if it pays $10/hr they probably get paid $20/hr by the city and pocket the rest, plus those contractors can't have any municipal debt. (Or be on a payment plan)

Might as well offer an amnesty on the fines on parking tickets. Get what you can out of it. The fines are oppresive and ridiculous. An expired parking meter is $100. That's a day's pay for a lot of people. Then if you don't respond within a set number of days of being "notified: (when the City says they notified you but you didn't respond) the fees are tacked on.

OK, so may the person owes you $500 for a parking ticket, lates fees and fines. Put out an amnesty and at least you will get the $100. You are never going to get the rest of it.

(OT) top cops talk about anti-police bias live hmm Gary oh Gary anything to say? Why are you not here? Would it make you "sick to your stomach" as you said about copper telling truth about thug mike brown?

You finance guys need to realize that you are not the police. Quit trying to act like it and look like it. I saved two of ya's from an ass beating already this summer because you try pushing authority that you don't have. I had one where a bus driver (not cta) pulled over due to a passenger getting sick. Rev. guy dressed like revenue swat starts writing him up and a passersby on foot warns the bus driver. This asshole orders the passersby to turn and get against the wall to be searched! I pull up when the guy got in the rev.'s face and probably would have beat the shit out of him. FYI- there is a war on the police, you are not armed nor do u have the right to act as the police. Would you wear a deer costume in the woods during hunting season? Stick with the meter maid costume pal